About Me
Simon Craddock Lee, PhD, MPH is a medical anthropologist with postgraduate training in cancer control and prevention. He is Chair of Population Health and Sosland Family Professor in Preventive Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He serves as interim Associate Director for cancer workforce equity for the University of Kansas Cancer Center, an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Previously, Dr. Lee was on faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for 14 years where he achieved the rank of Professor with tenure in the Department of Population and Data Sciences. At UTSW, he served as Co-Leader of the Population Science and Cancer Control research program in the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and Associate Director for community and collaboration for the UTSW Center for Translational Medicine.
A Yale graduate, Dr. Lee received his MPH from the University of California, Berkeley and his doctorate from the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology at University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral training through the NCI Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program in Bethesda, MD (2004-2008). A Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, he has held multiple leadership positions in the American Anthropological Association. He is president-elect of Population Health Leaders in Academic Medicine, an affiliate of the AAMC Council of Faculty & Academic Societies.